It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is about equal to the total biomass of all the people.
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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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